The hidden ingredient in successful M&A deals? Tech due diligence

tech due diligence

When you’re eyeing a company to buy or merge with, there’s a pretty standard playbook for what you dig into… financials, market share, leadership team… you get the idea. But one of the most overlooked yet mission-critical concerns? Their tech stack. Seriously. Tech due diligence can be just as important as any of those other concerns. A target’s technology stack … Read More

Why Your Business Should Embrace Infrastructure-as-a-Service

infrastructure-as-a-service

Keeping your business agile and competitive often comes down to making smart technology decisions (kinda obvious, I know, but it’s true). As we head into 2024, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of those decisions more and more small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are making. Instead of buying and maintaining expensive IT hardware, IaaS lets you rent infrastructure — like servers, storage, … Read More

Decoding the IT Dilemma: In-House vs. MSP for Small Businesses

MSP

If you’re running a small business, you’re familiar with the balancing act of managing growth while keeping costs in check. One of the most crucial decisions you’ll face is how to handle your IT needs. Should you build an in-house team or hire a Managed Service Provider (MSP)? Both options have their merits, but the right choice depends on your … Read More

Embracing 5G: How It’s Transforming Business Technology

5G isn’t the next step up the staircase… it’s a leap from landing to landing. And as we delve deeper into the era of digital transformation, the advent of 5G technology stands as a pivotal milestone. The revolutionary network technology is not just an upgrade in speed — it’s a gateway to a realm of new possibilities for business technology. … Read More

Why Your Employment Agreement Needs a Technology Clause

Employment Agreement

In the ever-accelerating era of technology, companies today are the unwitting custodians of vast digital fortresses. These fortresses— stocked with trade secrets, personal customer information, financial data, etc. —have become a veritable treasure trove for cyber-thieves. And it’s not only the rogues lurking in the murky waters of the internet you need to worry about; more often than not, the … Read More

Leverage’s best of 2022

Leverage

2022 has been a crazy year on several fronts — re-opening the country post-covid, a new normal for work, rampant inflation, war in Ukraine… it’s been a lot. The same is true for businesses as we navigate an ever-more hostile security environment, a constant need to innovate and upgrade our tech stacks to keep pace, etc. Leverage has been publishing … Read More

How to move your business from ‘respond’ to ‘recover’ post-Covid

Recover

Are we starting month 7 or month 70 post-pandemic outbreak? It feels like it was only yesterday and a lifetime ago that WFH became the new normal. And while there are a litany of problems facing us as individuals and as society, business problems are also core to the recovery. Without an economic recovery, there is no actual recovery. As … Read More

Has CoVid proven asynchronous video messaging is enterprise ready?

asynchronous video messaging

CoVid-19 has upended, well, pretty much everything. There’s a decade’s worth of reading on all the ways it has impacted our lives, both large and small; there will be more to come. That said, not everything it has revealed or impacted is necessarily bad — those favoring flexible working arrangements now have ample evidence it really can be done at … Read More

Why IT stability is the mother of productivity (and how to get it)

IT Stability

Labor productivity is higher than it has ever been before. This is great news for business owners as well as for retail investors, because it means the American economy is growing overall. Many things contribute to these productivity gains, from better workplace management and collaboration tools to the overarching influx of technology that simplifies tasks, automates repetition, and massively increases … Read More